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Handstamps tell a story This cover illustrates one of the reasons many people enjoy postal history - postal markings can tell a story, and there's often an element of mystery.
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Handstamp - a stamp or overprint which has been applied to paper singly and without mechanical means; a hand-held apparatus for printing that is struck on an ink pad and then pressed on paper. The die may be of metal, rubber, or wood.
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Handstamp RFDTerritorial Markings Back to Postmarks At the height of the postcard "craze", around 1907-1915, some of the Western States were still territories; Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907; Arizona and New Mexico in 1912; ...
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Handstamped Impressions With all types of handstamps, the sharpness and blackness of the impression vanes with the kind and amount of ink of the pad, the smoothness and hardness of the surface beneath the stamps, ...
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BACKSTAMP - A handstamp applied to the back of a letter, usually indicating date of transit or receipt at the office of destination.
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Cachet - Special handstamp (often a 'rubber stamp'), manuscript note, adhesive label or printed design borne by a postal item and confirming unusually a particular route or an interesting usage; e.g. a first flight on a particular route.
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19: Ante Meridiem, morning, coded time handstamps of 1890s. 20: Gibraltar, Imperial Censorship Code, WW II. 21: time of departure for Zeppelin flights. a: (Fr.) of, to, by, at Å: one-letter post office name, Norway. A$: Australian dollars. A.
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4: (Fr.) Armeé Britannique 1748 British Army handstamp, for Austrian army, usually on mail from Germany; carried by Thurn and Taxis to Belgium; see: Thurn and Taxis. 4: Russia surcharge, Cyrillic for Vladivostok Issue, Far Eastern Republic, 1923. A.
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The 15½ mm x 1½ mm handstamp is possibly Samuel Type D9a, a designation he gives to "a small group of overprints of similar appearance but of different dimensions to Type D9.
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Cachet. An impression generally applied to the face of an envelope by rubber handstamp or metal to commemorate an event. Cameo Type. Stamps with the featured subject (portrait) upraised against a dark solid background, just as in the normal cameo.
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A very interesting entire showing various datestamps and handstamps on front, indicating the routes taken and rates paid.
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See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Cancel, Catalog
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